B. J. Bullert, Ph.D.
is a communication scholar, a documentary filmmaker and an oral historian.
She is currently a senior research fellow at the Center for Communication
and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington and an Adjunct Professor
in the University of Washington's Masters in Digital Media program.

She received her doctorate in communication from the University of Washington
in 1995 and completed her M. Litt. degree in politics at St. Antony's
College, Oxford University, in 1981.

Interviewsby B.J.:Sweatshops on Fire
(8 min.) features an interview with Naomi Klein, author of NO LOGO: TAKING
AIM AT THE BRAND BULLIES. Klein compares New York's infamous Triangle
Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 with "the worst industrial fire in history"
at Thai toy factory in 1993.

History Lesson (4
min.) is a visual essay about the mass media and
globalization featuring Andrew Ross, Director of the American Studies
program at NYU.

Both works explore the selective prism of the news media and the struggle
for safe working condition in the global economy.

Diana Pallais is a Geopolitical Strategist with the Advanced Strategies
and Policy division at Microsoft Corporation. Diana's charter at Microsoft
is to help align the company's business interests with the public interest
of its host markets worldwide. The ultimate goal is to bolster Microsoft's
commitment to exemplary corporate citizenship. In particular, Diana has
concentrated on studying the necessary conditions for information technology
(IT) to be an engine of citizen empowerment and economic development.
In this process, she has specialized on the implications of various IT
business models and software development processes for wide and direct
adoption of IT. Diana is also a political and economic advisor on different
corporate initiatives, most notably the Trustworthy Computing initiative
which encompasses Microsoft's commitment to digital privacy, security,
reliability, and business integrity.

Diana holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington.

Greg Shaw

Greg Shaw is director
of the Pacific Northwest Program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
He also leads Foundation, Libraries and Pacific Northwest Advocacy.

Shaw was previously a partner with the communications firm of Shepardson
Stern and Kaminsky (SS+K), where he was an advisor to the foundation and
to numerous leading corporations in the Pacific Northwest. Before joining
SS+K, Shaw spent six years as a leader at Microsoft, where he helped to
create the company's giving program for public libraries. Prior to Microsoft,
Shaw was an executive with Ketchum Communications in Washington, D.C.,
and served in the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. He began his career as
an editor of the Cherokee Advocate, the newspaper for the Cherokee Nation
of Oklahoma.

Shaw has a B.A. in journalism from Northeastern State University in Oklahoma.
He serves as a Senior Fellow within the University of Washington's Center
for Communications and Civic Engagement, and on the Episcopal Relief and
Development's AIDS Advisory Council.